Fariq Naik – Effect of the Media in Stigmatising People
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The speaker discusses the power of the media and how it can be used to turn black into white and kill people. They emphasize the importance of using the same media to convey the message of Islam, as the media is powerful and can turn people into whimsical occupants. The speaker also mentions the need for the same media to convey the message of Islam to television.
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We have the example
of Nelson Mandela
when South Africa was ruled by the white
apartheid government.
Nelson Mandela
was imprisoned in Vauban Islands for more than
25 years
and by the white apartheid government, he was
called as terrorist number 1.
Later on,
when South Africa gets its freedom and the
white apartheid government is thrown out,
Nelson
Mandela gets freed
and he becomes the president of South Africa
and gets the Nobel Prize for peace.
Imagine
terrorist number 1
getting the Nobel Prize for peace.
So here we realize
the media,
whatever label it gives to a person,
that label gets stuck to him.
The media is very powerful.
It can turn black into white,
white into black,
hero into villain, villain into hero.
This is the power of the media.
We Muslims,
we are backward.
We need to use the same media. We
have to make it halal to strive to
convey the message of Islam.
And I do know that 99%
things will come on the television,
they are haram.
But
we need to use the same media. We
have to make it halal to strive to
convey the message of Islam.